We are in a mythical landscape on the banks of a mighty river. The Yorta Yorta know him as Dhungula'. The white fellas call it The Murray'. A clan of storytellers has gathered to invoke the beautiful place they once knew; to sing it into being. Some are stories of remembering, others are told so that they may never happen again. Children and elders, spirits and ghosts, dingoes and min-min lights are threaded together in these tales of colonial law, a people and their land. The land rights struggle of the Yorta Yorta people continues today. (4 male, 1 female).
Andrea James, a graduate of La Trobe University and the Victorian College of the Arts. She co-directed Crowfire for Playbox's Blak Inside season, and Magpie for Melbourne Workers Theatre. She recognises theatre as a place where oppressed people and classes can find unity, strength, power, expression and language. Theatre is about the only place in today's society where she can hear and speak the language of her father's peoplethe Yorta Yorta. James is of Aboriginal and Polish descent.